Nursing Home Boosts Vaccine Confidence and Improves Resident COVID-19 Booster Rates With Assistance from Health Services Advisory Group
A nursing home in a large metropolitan area received technical assistance from Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), to improve its resident COVID-19 booster rate. During initial contact with nursing home leadership, HSAG identified opportunities to build on the facility’s…
Telligen’s One-on-One Technical Assistance Helps Two Nursing Homes Increase Education and Communication About COVID-19 Boosters to Improve Rates
Two nursing homes struggling to increase their resident COVID-19 booster rate were referred to Telligen, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), for targeted technical assistance. As a result of this assistance, the facilities demonstrated a 74.9 percent and an 80.7 percent increase in resident booster rates,…
Nursing Home Improves Resident COVID-19 Booster Rates with Assistance from Great Plains Quality Innovation Network
A nursing home located on an Indian reservation received technical assistance from Great Plains Quality Innovation Network (Great Plains QIN), a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), to improve its resident COVID-19 booster rate. Through strategies which support vaccination and booster clinics and engagement in…
Superior Health’s Shine a Light on Stigma Campaign Highlights the Importance of Person-Centered Language to Improve Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Health care professionals have made great strides to improve treatment for individuals with substance use disorder (SUD). These include developing screening tools and implementing workflows to identify patients who need treatment. Other strategies include increasing the availability of treatment, adding recovery coaches and creating peer support groups to help guide patients to this care. Despite…
Limestone Medical Improves Hand Hygiene Rates with Electronic Monitoring System
Practicing hand hygiene is a simple and effective way to prevent infections. Yet, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), health care providers on average clean their hands less than half of the times they should. Additionally, on any given day, about one in 31 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI). (1) Limestone Medical Center, a 20-…
Qsource Helps Nursing Home Address Staff COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy to Increase Resident Booster Rates
A nursing home in a Health Professional Shortage Area where one quarter of its residents are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid (dual eligible) and 30 percent are racial or ethnic minorities, was referred to Qsource in February 2022 for assistance with improving its resident COVID-19 booster rate. The nursing home demonstrated a 52.9 percent increase in resident booster rates from when the…
High-Impact Outreach Strategies for Promoting Infection Control and COVID-19 Vaccine and Booster Uptake in Nursing Homes
In January 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services leveraged the expertise of Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIOs) to increase nursing home resident COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters. IPRO QIN-QIO provided the nursing homes in its region with access to just-in-time education, training and resources to help them mount an effective defense against…
Superior Health Quality Alliance Cultivates Trust and Addresses Vaccine Hesitancy, Data Challenges
In January 2022, a nursing home that had previously received technical assistance from Superior Health Quality Alliance (Superior Health) to improve nursing home resident COVID-19 initial vaccination series rates was referred again to Superior Health for assistance with improving its resident COVID-19 booster rate. The nursing home demonstrated an 85.3 percent net increase in resident booster…
Health Quality Innovators Helps Nursing Home Improve its Resident COVID-19 Booster Rate Amid Facility-wide COVID-19 Outbreak
In January 2022, a nursing home that had not had any COVID-19 cases for more than a year was referred to Health Quality Innovators (HQI) for assistance with improving its resident COVID-19 booster rate and responding to a sudden COVID-19 outbreak. The nursing home demonstrated a 62.7 percent increase in booster rates from when the facility was first referred to HQI and the last report to the…